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The producer of "Jerusalem 3D," the Imax documentary on the sacred Middle Eastern city, wasn't interested in making a political film.

"I think there are so many great films and books about the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, not to mention the nightly news," Taran Davies said. "What I was personally interested in was to look behind that a little bit and try to understand, without judgment, why Jews, Muslims and Christians love Jerusalem so much."

And why this ancient city on a mountainous plateau between the Mediterranean and Dead seas — the subject of more than 100 wars and dozens of conquests, and a place that has...

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